Saturday, October 28, 2017

Honourable PresidentofIndia His
Excellency Shri Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan unveiled the
book written by Ustad Amjad Alikhan titled ‘Master on Masters’ . It was
published by the Penguin Random House.

About the Book:

Veteran musician and sarod
maestro, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan had written a deeply personal book about the
lives and times of some of the greatest icons of Indian classical music. Having
known these legends personally, he recalls anecdotes and details about their
individual musical styles, bringing them alive. Twelve eminent musicians of the
twentieth century appear in the book - Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Begum
Akhtar, Alla Rakha, Kesarbai Kerkar, Kumar Gandharva, M.S. Subbulakshmi,
Bhimsen Joshi, Bismillah Khan, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan and Kishan Maharaj.
In writing about them, Amjad Ali Khan transcends the Gharana and north-south
divide and presents portraits of these great artists that are drawn with
affection, humour and warmth. Like his gently warming music, this is a delightful
book for the music lovers.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The wildly growing Bitcoin Company Xapo gives super security
physical storage place for its customers to keep their Bitcoins. Interestingly,
they are not charging for this service. It’s free. They smartly converted the
decommissioned Swiss military bunker into a super safe vault for their
customers. Actually, its precise location is secret, only accessed by a handful
of Xapo executives.

The Xapo vault incorporates multiple layers of the most
advanced forms of cryptographic security to secure our bitcoins. The whole
process includes multi-factor authentication and private key segmentation
between others.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Whenever a mellifluous Sitar flowing in the air, you can’t forget Arvind
Parikah, a classical Hindustani musician who has dedicated his life to
music.

Beginning:

​

Pandit ​Arvind Parikh was born in Ahmedabad into a
Gujarati Business Family with cultural and spiritual influences. His father was
a businessman and mother was a painter. At home he was taught Indian music by
musicians when he used to play several instruments like
dilruba, violin, mandolin, jaltarang and flute. Later
he started sitar, which he found suited him best. In 1944, at the age of
17, he moved to Mumbai and started learning from the famous sitar
maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan. His musical education continued uninterrupted
throughout his performing career, from 1944 to 2004 until Khan's death.

Musical Life

​Pandit Parikh is having a performing career spanning over six decades.
Association with different learned musicians and vocalists helped him in his
research work on different rare ragas and compositions. B. R. Deodhar, Latafat Hussain Khan, Amir Khan, Niyaz Ahmad-Faiyaz Ahmad Khan, D. T.
Joshi, Radhika Mohan Maitra need special
mention here. He has performed in India and abroad. He has been featured at
almost all major music festivals in India and Europe, and has had very
successful concert tours in several parts of West Asia, Far East and Australia.
He is a regular broadcaster on All India Radio. His
daughter Purvi Parikh is also a classical vocalist and learnt music from many
greats including her parents. Mrs. Parikh was disciple of Niyaz
Ahmad-Faiyaz Ahmad Khan of KiranaGharana.

​ ​

Pandit Parikh has documented most of the precious compositions and
ragas. "Sitar Guru", "Bandish
Parampara" published by Navras records UK are some of the testimonies
of his work.

Awards

​Pandit Parikh worked as musicologist, teacher, cultural ambassador, and
promoted initiatives aimed at increasing interest in Hindustani classical music
in India and abroad. He was Vice President of the International Music Council
(UNESCO) during 1994-97 and is currently co-ordinator for the Indian
sub-continent. He is President of the Indian Musicological Society, chairman of
the Western India Chapter of ITC-Sangeet Research Academy.

​

Pandit ​Parikh has been awarded the Gaurav Puraskar for
the year 1997-98 by the Gujarat State Sangeet Natak Akademi. He has
also been awarded the National Award by Sangeet Natak Akademi for Instrumental
music (sitar) for the year 2003. He is a top grade artist and a regular
broadcaster of All India Radio.

Besides his towering achievements in the musical sphere, he is also a
successful businessman and gentle human being.

​Surtarang has arranged a rich tribute for Panditji. I hereby request all of the readers of this blog, kindly stay tuned to listen the mesmerizing music of the legend.

By

Srini

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Saturday, April 22, 2017

A woman of great strength, with the courage to stand alone and defend herself in a musical world that was predominantly steered by men, she carved a niche for herself and was unshakeable force in the classical music world! Kishori Amonkar was often herself coerced and cajoled into to compromising the tradition to sing lighter forms for the pleasure of her audience although she stood firm, refusing to change the essential basic tenets of her gharana and Indian Classical Music. This is the quality that made her achieve her excellence.

A careful vistaar of the shuddh swars of the Raaganga in a reverberating scintillating voice, maneuvering the nuances of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, Kishori Amonkar had created an atmosphere of pure magic whenever she performed.

She displayed her expertise of the gayaki, a legacy that was handed to her by her guru, her mother Mogubai Kurdikar of the Alladiya Khan Jaipur Atrauli Gharana. Her musical training included honing a trained voice that traversed 3 octaves and the ability to discern Shrutis (Microtones).

She chose to perform less, to teach in the guru-shishya parampara and carry the tradition forward and also write a book instead. There are many students she has taught and she was exemplary among many young artists all over the country who will look up to her for years to come as a role model, a brilliant musician and a personality beyond par. She may be passed away but her music remains resonate forever in the hearts of millions of pure music lovers across the globe.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922–18 June 2009) was a Hindustani classical
musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.
Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Acharya Baba
Allauddin Khan. Ali Akbar Khan Shaheb also composed several classical ragas and
film scores. Khan Shaheb established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and
the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967; which moved with him to the USA and is
now based in San Rafael, California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland.

Khan Shaheb was instrumental in popularising Indian classical music in the
West, both as a performer and as a teacher. He first came to America in 1955 on
the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later settled in
California. He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.

Khan Shaheb was accorded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma
Vibhushan, in 1989. Nominated five times for the Grammy Award, Khan Shaheb was a recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage
Fellowship.

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